“When I was a kid, I remember dinging up my surfboard on some rocks, and I said, ‘Oh no, what am I going to do?!’ I remember him saying, ‘Don’t worry, it’ll make you go faster.’ I’ve never forgotten that.”

“We ask people to—for 45 minutes, three days a week—spend time aligning their thoughts, their heart rate and their lungs, and answer questions about how they want to live. When you line up all those different pathways, that’s when you actually create change in your life.”

“I want the viewer to see what they see and find what they find hopefully it’s a trigger for an inner dialogue with themselves. I think of art—not only my art but of all art—as a trigger rather than a message.”

“Margaret Kilgallen was an idealist, intuitist, inventor and in all likelihood, a genius. A generation of artists, writers, designers and craftspeople feel her absence of poignantly and her influence pervasively.”

“I don’t see myself as one of the leaders in journalism, but I know others do. I think about that a lot. Especially when it comes to young women. I am deeply flattered when young women say they look up to me. It is also a profound responsibility. I want to do right by them.”

“We cannot be weak. We escaped the war. No other human will give you that strength. I had that strength inside of me. I had the courage to do whatever has to be done. Sometimes I say to my daughter, now we are here. I tell her to the feel the courage.”